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cn coin 27540

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CN Type 5643 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΑΣ
Design
Head of bearded Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Dionysas (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
12.67 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ABD_2L_4_032o/r

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 213, nr. 290 a, pl. XVI  (411/10-386/5 BC)  ❐

Schultz and Zahle, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Supplementum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals , Danish National Museum. Acquisitions 1942-1996, Copenhagen 2002 nr. 325  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 213-214, nr. 287-292, pl. 16 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetan standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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